Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota
This school is one of the country’s finest arts institutions. Of the arts and design courses offered, three are particularly relevant to concept art: Illustration, Computer Animation and Game Art and Design. First year students follow a core curriculum of drawing, color and design, before specializing in their second year.

Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
This is one of the world’s leading graphic and industrial design colleges.  The Art Center is renowned for a range of programs geared towards preparing students for a career in the commercial arts field. Illustration is the key course of interest, but the project design program is also popular.

School Of Visual Arts, New York
Originally known as the Cartoonists’ and Illustrators’ school, the School of Visual Arts is located in Manhattan. Eleven undergraduate and nine graduate level programs are offered.  Courses like those looking to be a concept artist.

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Founded in 1877, The Rhode Island School of Design is home to the best Master of Fine Arts course in the US. They have a large illustration department with capacity for 240 students. Students studying Illustration can choose from a range of electives, including narrative storytelling, comics and editorial illustration.

 Academy Of Art University, San Francisco
“Built by artists, for artists” is the motto of this private school of art and design. The university has top illustration course suitable for prospective concept designers as well as a range of industrial and product design programs.

The Juilliard School was founded in 1905 as the Institute of Musical Art.  The purpose was to establish a music academy in America to rival European conservatories, and its original founder was Dr. Frank Damrosch, the godson of Franz Liszt. In 1919, Augustus D. Juilliard, a wealthy textile merchant, died and left the largest single bequest for the advancement of music at that time. 1924 the Institute of Musical Art was changed to The Juilliard School of Music.

The Juilliard School is a conservatory offering pre-professional training in its programs for music, dance and drama, with a highly competitive applicant pool. Only about 8 percent of applicants are accepted; therefore, only those students who are best qualified to fill our limited spaces will be admitted.

Juilliard’s central mission is to educate talented performing musicians, dancers and actors so that they may achieve the highest artistic standards, as well as become leaders in their professions. This exceptional school takes pride in providing students with the educational, professional, social and emotional foundation necessary for them to embark on successful careers and productive lives as artists, leaders and citizens.

The Los Angeles Film School was founded in 1999 by a group of Hollywood professionals. Their goal was to establish a film school where current film industry professionals could share their knowledge of film production with a new generation of aspiring filmmakers. The Los Angeles Film School is a leader, using some of the most current industry standard film equipment in its classrooms, labs, and soundstages. This industry current, high tech campus is heralded as “One of the best-equipped private learning centers in the country.”

The Los Angeles Film School offers a one year Immersion Filmmaking Program that provides comprehensive training and hands-on experience in filmmaking.  Students spend about 30 hours a week in class in addition to class exercises and productions in their chosen and elective concentrations. The comprehensive curriculum offered focuses on connecting the technical requirements of filmmaking, to the creativity of the Filmmaker.

Film School concentrations include:

Direction
Producing
Cinematography
Production Design
Sound Design
Editing
Screenwriting

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